Is My Child Becoming Homosexual? — Page 2

Wow, that's unbelievably pathetic. So...there's something wrong with a boy if he cries and doesn't like sports? What's up with that? That's like saying all girls MUST love dolls and the color pink or there's something wrong with THEM. psh.

Wow. My favorite part was when he blamed the kids for being bullied. It sounds like this constructionist theory on homosexuality I read about once. Of course, this theory was from the 1950s and James Dobson is now trying to pass this off as fact.

"Some people should not be allowed to have a license to practice."

He doesn't. The APA took away his medical license in the 1970s when he refused to accept their decree that homosexuality would no longer be considered a disorder or disease. That's why he's never referred to as "Dr." when he appears on FoxNews and such.

Oh, "it's not too late" link in the article contains some classics as well.

Don’t wait until your daughter’s masculinized behavior or your son’s effeminate preferences get any worse. Remember that for many prehomosexual boys and girls, some of the characteristics may be more subtle:
-inability to bond with same-sex peers
Really? I thought the "problem" was that they bonded a bit too well with same-sex peers. Sorry, cheap shot, I know, but this line was practically begging for snark.

Call to make an appointment with a professional therapist who believes change is possible.
Doesn't that narrow down the field of professional therapists to only those Exodus counselors? Oh, wait, of course, they're the first link at the bottom.

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Updated On: 8/9/05 at 08:18 PM

I keep visualising some six year old throwing his arms in the air and shrieking, "But dad, retribution is DIVINE!"

Mmmm...Marquise...wanna play some touch football?

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My wife and I have discussed hundreds of times that being a parent is humbling. You try to make choices that will help your children to become happy adults. You worry about their morals, their judgment, their health and their mental well being.

It is such a difficult journey and I can tell you that I fail more often than my children.

We spend thousands on providing an environment in which they are exposed to all kinds of culture, art, people and other aspects of life. We try to teach them basic values which include loving and respecting all people regardless of race, color, sex, status, color, creed, income, political party, etc.

Never, during our journey would we need Dobson to complicate our choices by adding a fake and hate filled questionnaire to the mix.

This man should go back and think about the time when false text books and words were less important than love.

“My Dog Is a Plumber”

My dog is a plumber, he must be a boy.
Although I must tell you his favorite toy
Is a little play stove with pans and with pots
Which he really must like, ‘cause he plays with it lots.
So perhaps he’s a girl, which kind of makes sense.
Since he can’t throw a ball and he can’t climb a fence.
But neither can Dad, and I know he’s a man,
And Mom is a woman, and she drives a van.
Maybe the problem is in trying to tell
Just what someone is by what he does well.

Bully Penguin

Updated On: 8/9/05 at 11:42 PM

PJ - I have had it with you and your gay penguins. Everytime I look around there is a gay penguin threatening me and my family. Stop it.

Reading that crap made me puke a little in my mouth.

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one of the links had this gem:
Psychologist Robert Stoller said, “growing up straight isn’t something that happens. It requires good parenting. It requires societal support. And it takes time.”

it takes time to grow up straight, but growing up straight isn't something that happens? pick a dogma, robert!

There's a 15 year old boy who's been taking acting classes at our theatre. He's rather obviously effeminate. Well, he recently told his parents that he "thinks he might be gay". WELL...DUH!!!!

How did the parents react? They have forbidden him from taking any more acting classes or trying out for school plays, and have demanded he go out for the sports teams! Do they think this will "reverse the process" and make him straight? No - what will probably happen is that instead of participating in activities where he will be accepted, this boy will be harrassed, and possibly brutalized, by a bunch of homophobic jocks.

Ah, the old Freudian chestnut about mothers turning their kids gay. Graham Robb put it best, I think:

"The habit of attaching colourful causes to banal effects is not peculiar to popular notions of homosexuality. The same sort of logic seems to have inspired the enduring psychological idea that homosexuals are produced by weak or absent fathers and over-protective mothers (first expressed scientifically in Freud's 1910 essay on Leonardo Da Vinci). Far from identifying a cause, this appears to describe a common parental reaction to sons who were either homosexual or effeminate: mothers tended to sympathize, fathers tended to sever all ties.

"Freud's idea satisfied the two main requirements for a successful theory. First, it chimed with popular prejudice- in this case, the belief that gay men are 'mummy's boys'. Second, it was almost indestructibly elastic. If the father was sympathetic, he could still be described as weak. Similarly, most mothers could be said to have exercised a degree of emotional domination at some stage in the child's development, especially in the early years."

Strangers, p. 9

Updated On: 8/10/05 at 10:29 AM